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“Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, said the crisis stemmed from the Conservatives’ decision in 2010 to axe the Building Schools for the Future programme – the investment strategy introduced under Tony Blair – and what she described as repeated raids on education capital budgets.
“Using already-allocated money to just make safe school buildings with Raac is funnelling money away from other necessary work to upgrade schools and remove dangerous asbestos, storing up problems for the future,” she said.”
From here.
It's time we stopped just talking about "levelling up" and started acting, the country needs a New Deal-esque stimulus to create skills and build new infrastructure with them. Schools, transport, hospitals, housing, it has all lagged behind for too long and now the damage is becoming clear.
Optimistic thinking and positive, constructive visions seem a bit lacking in Labour's outlook however.